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Hole, Dave.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES HOL

Summary: Recounts how the struggle between North and South, long defined by battles like Gettysburg, Antietam, and Bull Run, was actually dependent on events in the West. Although often overlooked, the western theatre saw some of the conflict's bloodiest encounters, such as Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Chickamauga, and featured iconic leaders.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CIV

Wulf, Andrea.

Summary: "From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Andrea Wulf...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 712.0973 WUL

Katz, Emily

Summary: Macrame--the fine art of knotting--is an age-old craft that's undergoing a contemporary renaissance. At the heart of this resurgence is Emily Katz, a lifestyle icon and artist who teaches sold out macrame workshops around the world and creates swoon-worthy aspirational interiors with her custom hand-knotted pieces. Modern Macrame is a stylish, contemporary guide to the traditional art and craft...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.42 KAT

Hungry Wolf, Adolf.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Book Pub. Co. 1990

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.4 HUN

Summary: Butterflies are perhaps the world's most beloved insects. But beneath their colorful charm, there's a wealth of hidden scientific secrets that show butterflies to be smarter and more resilient than we ever imagined.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BUT

Summary: In this film essay, multimedia artist Laurie Anderson presents a monologue touching upon her relationship with her rat terrier Lolabelle, the death of her mother, the heightening of surveillance following 9/11, and other topics.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HEA

Kato, Kazue

Summary: With both eyes of the Impure King in their possession, Mamushi and Todo head for the temple that was once the center of the Myodha sect, but Mamushi remains unaware that Todo plans to resurrect the Impure King. As he prepares to face the Impure King, Rin learns more about Father Fujimoto's connection to Tatsuma and the origins of the Koma Sword.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2012

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLU

Marton, Kati.

Summary: "This astonishing real-life spy thriller, filled with danger, misplaced loyalties, betrayal, treachery, and pure evil, with a plot twist worthy of John le Carre, is relevant today as a tale of fanaticism and the lengths it takes us to. True Believer reveals the life of Noel Field, an American who betrayed his country and crushed his family. Field, once a well-meaning and privileged American,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FIELD, NOEL HAVILAND MAR

Usitalo, Kath

Summary: How did a sparsely populated landmass surrounded by Great Lakes and completely separated from the rest of the state become the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? At the end of each winter what do Yoopers -those hardy souls who call the UP home -measure with a 30-foot tall thermometer? And should you put ketchup or gravy on a pasty? You ll find the answers to these questions and many more in Secret...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reedy Press 2019

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 USI

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.49 USI

Summary: The film brings Hollywood's elite composers together to give viewers a privileged look inside the musical challenges and creative secrecy of the world's most international music genre: the film score. A film composer is a musical scientist of sorts, and the influence they have to complement a film and garner powerful reactions from global audiences can be a daunting task to take on. Includes...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SCO

Kates, Brian

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 1985

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Hochhuth, Rolf.

Summary: Full English translation of the uncut, original text. Play raises the question of how Pope Pius 12th could fail to speak out against the mass murder of six million Jews during the World War.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 1964

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 832.914 HOC

Kade, Rebecca.

Summary: Offers the author's accounts of her time as a highly paid prostitute, how she came to work for multimillion-dollar madam Anna Gristina, and how she became an informant against Gristina after being threatened with jail time.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KADE, REBECCA KAD

Kato, Kazue

Summary: Exorcist Rin Okumura continues to try to control his demonic powers as distrust swirls around the heads of the various Myodha temple families, and he receives a letter that reveals information about his past.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2012

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLU

Kite, Lexie

Summary: "Positive body image isn't believing your body looks good; it is knowing your body is good, regardless of how it looks"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.4 KIT

Soyinka, Wole.

Summary: In The Open Sore of a Continent, Soyinka, whose own Nigerian passport was confiscated by General Abacha in 1994, explores the history and future of Nigeria in a compelling jeremiad that is as intense as it is provocative, learned, and wide-ranging. He deftly explains the shifting dramatic personae of Nigerian history and politics to Westerners unfamiliar with the players and the process,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882 SOY

Usitalo, Kath

Summary: To the Anishinaabe-Ojibwa people it was a gathering place, a sacred burial ground, and the home of the Great Spirit Gitchie Manitou. Throughout the 1600s French voyageurs, explorers, missionaries, and fur traders arrived at Mackinac Island. Its strategic location in the straits between Michigan's Upper and Lower Peninsulas made it a military outpost the British and Americans found worth...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reedy Press, LLC 2018

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 MICHIGAN MAC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 917.3 USI

Katō, Kazue

Summary: "When Shiemi confronts her old nemesis Amaimon, the demon king of earth doesn't understand just how powerful Shiemi has become. But for Shiemi to achieve her destiny, she also needs to realize her own strength! Back in Assiah, Satan and his minions square off against Mephisto and the Knights of the True Cross to determine the fate of the world. After receiving some enchanted power-ups, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2023

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 741.5 BLU

Konayama, Kata

Summary: "After a harrowing night with their sister and a trip to the hospital, Mogumo tells Tetsu about their past. Between their long struggle with gender dysphoria, the pain of an unsupportive family, and their desperate act of self-harm, life has been far from easy for them. Despite the friction with their family, however, Mogumo decides to reach out for reconciliation. What will happen when they...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LOV

Marton, Kati.

Summary: Renowned author Kati Marton tells how her journalist parents survived the Nazis in Budapest and were imprisoned by the Soviets.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MARTON, KATI MAR

Usitalo, Kath

Summary: Touring Michigan's Upper Peninsula (U.P.) is like taking a two-week trip by station wagon. Not in terms of time---you can sample plenty if four days is all you have. It's about stepping back and appreciating a place of raw scenic beauty dotted with roadside attractions, blinker-light towns, rustic cabins and hand-painted signs advertising smoked fish and homemade jam.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Reedy Press 2017

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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 MICHIGAN UPP

Wulf, Andrea

Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, comes a breathtakingly illustrated and brilliantly evocative recounting of Alexander Von Humboldt's five year expedition in South America. Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery, but his most...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WUL

MATE, FERENC

Summary: This book is a true-life adventure of a couple who did what most of us only dream of doing: they gave up the rat race of the big city for a new life in Tuscany. Candace and Ferenc Mate - she a painter, he a writer - arrive from New York in the late 1980s knowing almost no Italian, and with only four weeks to find a country house to live in. They finally conclude the deal on the hood of a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: NORTO 0000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.55 MAT

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